July 31, 2009
A Cancer Patient that Doesn't Want Free Health Care
A friend of ThreeSources sends me a link to a WSJ guest editorial on health care. She's right, it is superb:
I have been battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, an incurable blood cancer, for the past nine years. Last year, I was also diagnosed with uterine cancer.I didn’t run to Canada for treatment. Medicare took care of my needs right here in New York City. To endure, I just need the freedom to choose my insurance, my doctors, and get the diagnostic scans and care I need. And one more thing: I need hope that a treatment will be developed that can control my diseases the way insulin controls diabetes.
Every cancer patient needs these things, especially hope. But the government's plan to reform the health-care system in this country threatens all of this—particularly the development of new treatments.
Whole thing gotta. Health Care Posted by John Kranz at July 31, 2009 10:30 AM
Am I the only one who noticed that she wrote, "Medicare took care of my needs right here in New York City." (Emphasis added.)
Posted by: HB at July 31, 2009 2:51 PMNope,
Posted by: jk at July 31, 2009 2:53 PMUlrik writes, "But are we really expected to forgo new medical technology and return to the cancer care of the 1970s?"
Why not?
We're being asked to forego the most modern electrical generation technology in exchange for windmills and solar cells first popularized in the 1970's.
We're being asked to forego comfortable, powerful and safe autos and return to updated econo-boxes of the 1970's.
Our government is attempting to solve well-understood economic problems with the same policies that failed in the 1970's, albeit on a grander scale.
But why should anyone be surprised by any of this? The most substantive difference between the current congress and White House in comparison to those of the Carter era is that George McGovern thinks THIS crop is taking things too far.
Posted by: johngalt at July 31, 2009 2:54 PMWell said. Arnold Kling in Crisis of Abundance points out that we can easily afford 1970s health care for everybody. If it was on the Dr. Welby show, you can have it!
Strangely, few are lining up for that plan. Except in countries that took over health care when the kindly Robert Young character was on.
Posted by: jk at July 31, 2009 2:58 PM | What do you think? [4]